Cinco Ranch High School

School Information

School Name: Cinco Ranch High School
District Name: Katy Independent School District
School Address:  23440 Cinco Ranch Blvd, Katy, TX 77494
School Phone: 281.237.7000
School Fax: 281.644.1734
Principal: Bonnie Brasic
Principal E-Mail: bonniebrasic@katyisd.org
Web Address: http://kisdwebs.katyisd.org/campuses/crhs/Pages/Default.aspx

Demographics

Number of Students:  2900
Number eligible for Free and Reduced Lunch: 3%
Percent of Limited English Proficient: 3%
Percent of Special Education:  6%
Racial/Ethnic Percentages:

• White: 69%
• Black: 6%
• Hispanic: 12%
• Asian/Pacific Island: 13%
• Other: NA

 

Student Achievement Data:

Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS)

 

	Percent students meeting standards on all tests
2003-04	84
2004-05	86
2005-06	89
2006-07	91
2007-08	91

 

Commended Scores on TAKS

	English Language Arts	Math	Science	Social Studies
2003-04	18	40	16	46
2004-05	29	41	23	55
2005-06	38	43	31	63
2006-07	40	42	32	67
2007-08	43	49	36	66

 

 

Please comment on any aspect of the data that you believe is particularly significant.s

Our passing rates, as well as our commended scores have continued to improve as our population has increasingly become more diverse.

 

Please present additional information that indicates your efforts to build a professional learning community have had a positive impact on students and/or teachers.

Response to Intervention (RTI) is a multi-tiered proactive approach to meeting the academic and/or behavioral needs of struggling students. It relies on collaborative, interdisciplinary teams that work together to lend support to the efforts of regular classroom teachers and to bring about improved academic performance for students who are achieving below expected levels based upon aptitude, behavior, and/or District standards. The goal of RTI is to foster classrooms where teaching is directed toward the variable learning needs of a diverse student population. To achieve this goal, school personnel enrich and supplement the curriculum through analysis of individual student performance, consultation/collaboration, and differentiated instruction. Response To Intervention (RTI) Coordinators facilitate meetings for teachers that require assistance with an individual student in the classroom. The RTI Coordinator works with the teacher and other faculty members to utilize student performance data to make informed decisions to ensure continuous improvement in learning/behavior. The RTI Coordinator creates interdisciplinary teams that work collaboratively as a routine practice in improving student performance. The teacher then employs systematic research-based interventions that provide students with extra time and support for achieving learning and behavioral expectations.

 

Please elaborate strategies you have found to be effective in the following areas:

1. Monitoring student learning on a timely basis.

All parents have access to the PIC (Parent Information Center). Passwords are issued so a parent can log on and view their child’s grades in real time, thus keeping apprised of their child’s progress in a class. Teachers are also able to set their online grading program to send an automatic email to parents when their child’s grade drops below a 75%. Progress reports and report cards are issued every three weeks. Students are assigned to mandatory tutorials when their grade drops to failing.

2. Creating systems of intervention to provide students with additional time and support for learning.

Mandatory tutorials are assigned. Directed study halls and targeted classes, as well as Block Algebra are available during the school day. We are developing a system to incorporate an advisory period for daily monitoring for the 2009-10 school year.

3. Building teacher capacity to work as members of high performing collaborative teams that focus efforts on improved learning for all students.

We are currently conducting a book study of Whatever It Takes: How Professional Communities Respond When Kids Don’t Learn. Currently, the administrative team, department chairs, and counselors are involved in the book study, with additional copies placed in our professional library for other teachers to check out. We are conducting conversations regarding our learnings from the book with our faculty and staff through our faculty meetings.

We have also studied parts of the book through our PLC3 Committee, which works on ways to improve student learning.

 

List awards and recognitions your school has achieved:

The state of Texas recognizes schools for outstanding achievement using a variety of indicators to monitor student learning. In 2008 Cinco Ranch received state recognition in English, mathematics, social studies, and Advanced Placement results. Cinco Ranch was one of four public high schools in Texas to receive the United States Department of Education’s No Child Left Behind Blue Ribbon Award in 2008.

- Named to Texas Monthly’s “Best Public Schools” list, 2006
- Texas Business and Education Coalition Honor Roll, 2006, 2007
- Named to Newsweek’s top 1,200 High Schools national list, 2006, 2007
- Named a Just for the Kids Higher Performing School, 2008
- Named an NCLB National Blue Ribbon School 2008
- 20 National Merit semi-finalists, 10 National Hispanic Recognition scholars, 1 National Achievement Scholarship semi-finalist, 2007
- 21 Texas All-State musicians in band, choir and orchestra, 2007
- 2 winners in the National Theatre Competition; University of Nebraska
- FBLA organization named Most Outstanding Chapter in Texas, 2007
- Student Council awarded sweepstakes for State Report which is highest honor, 2007
- Robotics Team achieved finalist status in the Silicon Valley Regional Competition
- 31 students named Academic All State Athletes, 2007
- CRHS recognized by the organization of Children At Risk and the Houston Chronicle as one of the Top 10 High Schools in the Greater Houston Area, 2006, 2007
- District and Regional Champion Academic Decathlon team, 2004
- Texas State Champion Destination Imagination team, 2004
- 11 Tommy Tune nominations for musical theatre productions, 2004
- 5 State Gold medals in the visual arts, 2004
- 1 First Chair Cello in Texas All-State Philharmonic Orchestra, 2004
- District Football Champions, 2008
- 3rd Place Texas State Winter Guard team, 2004
- 2nd Place National Drill Team, 2004
- Boys State Track Championship, 2004, 2005
- 2nd place finisher at boys State Cross Country Meet, 2004
- 4th place finisher at boys State Wrestling Meet, 2004
- District athletic championships, including boys cross country, girls cross country, volleyball, boys wrestling, boys basketball, girls swimming, boys track, and girls soccer.
- Numerous art awards, including a National Scholastic Art Silver Key award in 2006, 3 Gold & 5 Silver Awards in 2007 - Regional Scholastic Art Competition, overall class champion and reserve class champion in Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo School Art Event, first place in Galveston’s “Art on the Spot,” 3 finalists in Culture Shapers Visual Arts Contest, honorable mention in Via Colori High School Art Contest, 2006
- Numerous other awards and recognitions in debate, newspaper, yearbook, Latin, Spanish, German, computer science, writing, social studies, Future Business Leaders of America, and Health Occupation Sciences.
- Numerous staff awards, including Texas Dance Educator Association’s Director of the Year, Texas Foreign Language Association’s Latin Teacher of the Year, and a Disney Teacher of the Year nominee, 2006